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Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said she hoped that by April 1 they will be ready with a venue for sittings of Parliament.
OPINION: COP28 provides a critical opportunity to escalate our fight for climate justice and system change and raise long-standing demands for real solutions, writes Shanice Firmin.
OPINION: Trade between China and South Africa has grown from $1. 3 billion in 2000 to over $56 billion in 2022, making China South Africa’s largest trading partner while South Africa is China’s biggest trade partner in Africa, writes David Monyae.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said they welcome the loss and damage fund and the pledges that have already been made.
OPINION: We expect countries to implement the agreements to cut greenhouse gas emissions that were made in previous COPS, such as Egypt, Paris, and Glasgow. They must agree to significant global commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions and share the time frame to achieve this target, writes Kershni Ramreddi.
Minister of Trade and Industry Ebrahim Patel said it was worth fighting for the renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa).
President Cyril Ramaphosa said he believes BRICS can play a role in finding peace in the Middle East.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will lead discussions on the crisis in Gaza in a virtual meeting to be attended by BRICS leaders, including President Xi Jinping of China, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
OPINION: This bilateral summit in the US could not have come soon enough, as it provides these two countries an opportunity to close ranks and avert further fallout which would have devastating impact on the global economy and security, writes David Monyae.
OPINION: The huge impact of corruption can also be linked to the functionality of state-owned entities such as the power utility, writes Gwinyai Taruvinga.
OPINION: The Agoa forum met during a time of Middle East conflict and a war between Israelis and Palestinians as well as the Russia-Ukraine conflict, writes Ashraf Patel.
US President Joe Biden urged the US Congress to extend Agoa in a timely fashion and to “modernise this important Act for the economic opportunities of the coming decade. ”
US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said Mauritania has made progress in addressing worker issues in the last four years and the US has reinstated it in Agoa.
US President Joe Biden said he will exclude Niger, Gabon, the Central African Republic and Uganda from Agoa because of their failure to meet Agoa requirements.
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor said the cost to cover the BRICS summit did not extend to the BRICS Parliamentary Forum.
OPINION: Labour’s current meek and uncritical participation in preparation for the Agoa summit sharply contrasts with their publicly stated positions of “unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in their quest for justice, peace and for the end of violence,” writes Woody Aroun.
OPINION: The Agoa summit could not have come at a more awkward time for South Africa and the US. It will come amid the Palestinian-Israeli war which has divided global opinion. South Africa and the US are on opposing sides once again. While the US has pledged its support for Israel, arguing that the Jewish state has a right to defend itself from the Hamas attack, South Africa has laid the blame on Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory and pledged its support for the people of Palestine, writes Dr Sizo Nkala.
OPINION: By reviving the Commonwealth, it merely gives additional diplomatic burden on many poorer nation states who need to navigate a complex global order to secure a decent development deal, writes Ashraf Patel.
OPINION: Russia, China and North Korea need the alliance to undermine and blunt the US and the West’s hostility towards their respective governments. Since 2018, the US has been engaged in a trade war with China while identifying the country as a strategic threat, writes Dr Sizo Nkala.
The BRICS Foreign Ministers’ summit, which was held in Cape Town in June as a preparation for the leaders’ summit in August, discussed, among other issues, the expansion of the bloc.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said they had constructive engagements at the EU-African Leaders’ meeting, which was on the sidelines of G20, where they discussed food security, grain and fertiliser supply and the reform of the global financial institutions.
President Cyril Ramaphosa and leaders of Brazil, India and the US want the G20 to address global challenges.
OPINION: Climate change is moving much faster than we are, pushing ecosystems and communities to their limits. If people do not reverse direction and accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels and develop low-carbon, climate-resilient economies, we will the opportunity to limit temperature to 1. 5°C this century, with minimal overshoot, writes Kershni Ramreddi.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says at a time the world economy faces headwinds, G20 member states and other countries must work together